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Quite a few years ago Red Top had their own line of swimmers called Cap'n Bill's. I spoke with Bunny about these plugs several years ago and his reply may explain the 'splitting plug' phenomena.
It seems that these plugs became pretty popular and they had trouble meeting demands. So they hired someone to build the plugs for them. Bunny said in order to speed up the process the sub-contractor cut corners by not soaking or not soaking the plugs long enough in a solution (I think it was fermiculite or something like that). This caused all the plugs built in this manner to split after very little usage. You could always tell the plugs that Red Top built versus the ones that they had sub-contrated out.
The splits in these plugs was pretty unsightly. I used to just fill the split with epoxy and continue to fish them.
When you pay the current inflated prices for Gibbs lures .. you expect them to perform. The last lure I bought from them was a PP. The attachment thru wire was not even centered. So its still in the wrapper.
Anytime I use a popper in the future .. it will be a Hawg Hunter!
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